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WordPress has a easy to use gallery feature built in. No need for complicated plugins that only slow your site down, it’s right there in the core for you to use.

Forward takes that one step further with a built-in lightbox image viewer. It includes 10 different styles so you can find one that best fits your needs. If you’d rather not use it, it’s easy to turn off in the theme options too.

Did you know that working with video is a piece of cake in WordPress? All you have to do is place the video’s URL if it’s on a service like YouTube or Vimeo on it’s own line, and WordPress will automatically fetch and display the vide for you. Just like this:

Forward takes that one step further. It will pull the video and place it into the blog archive view too, in the spot where a featured image will go. We also make your video responsive automatically so that it looks great across devices.

This is a simple post to show how things look with a featured image. The image will appear above the post title when viewed from the main blog page. It’s a good way to pull your visitors into the post with something that really catches their attention.

A fantastic plugin that makes featured images even better is Drag and Drop Featured Image. It replaces the standard “Set Featured Image” box with one that allows you to simply drop a featured image on top of it to upload and set the image in one easy motion.

This post has the sidebar on the right hand side. You can choose a global setting in the customizer that will set the layout everywhere. That setting can be overridden on individual pages/posts as well using the layout drop-down menu.

This post has its sidebar on the left hand side. You can set this globally in the customizer or override it on individual pages/posts. That way you have maximum flexibility in how your site looks and works.